Archaeology of Colonisation - From Aesthetics to Biopolitics

This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Archaeology of Colonisation

Part 1: Origins: Colonial Aesthetics (The Caribbean)

2. Aesthetics of Ugliness
3. Monstrous Anthropology
4. Blackness

Part 2: Command (Queensland, Australia)

5. Biopolitics in Colonisation: The Inequality of Human Races
6. The Blanket Approach
7. State of Exception in Australia
8. Conclusion: Colonisation

About the author

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, College of William & Mary

Summary

This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance.

Product details

• Authors: Carlos Rivera-Santana
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781786609007
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-900-7
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics; Critical Perspectives on Theor
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Politics & government, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Colonialism and imperialism